This is a story about a prisoner, and the film depicts the prisoner's relationship with an unruly wild horse. After watching the whole movie, I feel that the name of the movie "Wild Horse" is not only because horses almost occupy the C position in the film, but it is even more difficult to say that it is not to describe people's hearts.
I'm not very clear about the original intention of the screenwriter to write such a drama, but the biggest feeling of this whole drama to me, in addition to the deep irony, is the heavy helplessness. Prisoner Roman got into an argument with his girlfriend because he cheated on her, and killed her impulsively. The film does not explain Roman's sentence, the only clue is that at the beginning of the film, in a conversation with a psychiatrist, we learn that he has spent 12 years in prison. Roman and his girlfriend have a daughter, and the relationship between the father and daughter was tense. When the pregnant daughter came to prison to find him because of a document that his father needed to sign, he signed it without even looking at the document. He yelled at his daughter violently, refusing to meet her again. An indifferent person, or a person who has been imprisoned and lost his heart by his life in prison. To his daughter, to his daughter's mother, and to himself. Because of the appearance of a wild horse, this hateful and pitiful person, whose life was hopeless, had a turning point, and a heart that had been depressed for a long time was stirred up again.
This prison was built in the wild in a rural American country, with picturesque and chilling beauty. Here, the government will send the captured wild horses to the prison, and the prisoners will help to tame the wild horses. The tamed wild horses will serve the US government and the military, and the prisoners will get a reduced sentence if they perform well in the process. Among this batch of captured wild horses, one horse was extremely violent, and no one dared to approach it. By chance, Roman came across this wild horse while working on a horse farm. The Mustang kept kicking against the warehouse walls, drawing Roman in. When their eyes met, two equally lonely and manic hearts touched.
Roman joins the project to tame wild horses. Standing in the enclosure, a horse that has never been tamed, a man who has never been tamed, is equally terrified. The process of training a horse is long, tedious and fraught with danger. Horses can lose their temper, people can get angry, and countless failures drive Roman almost mad. When he finally slumps to the ground, the horse approaches, bowing his head and arching his shoulders. A spark of hope ignited in the hopeless stillness, and Roman pressed his forehead against the horse's, eyes moist. If it is said that there are angels and devils living together in the human body, then Roman has been ruled by the devil for the first half of his life, while the horse quietly awakens the sleeping angel in his body. This was a watershed moment in his life.
He named the horse Marquits, after a horse trainer he saw in a magazine. A horse with a name is no longer a wild horse, and a person with a partner is no longer indifferent as a rock. Getting along day after day, Roman has learned the awe of life. Meeting his daughter again, he shed tears of remorse in front of her for the first time. Confession after rebirth. For the first time, he finally revealed to his daughter how much he loved her. But the hazy childhood experience made it impossible for her daughter to forgive him. It's not her fault.
The auction day for the horses finally came, and the prisoners who tamed the horses came on stage one by one, and rode their tamed horses around the arena triumphantly. Roman wrote a letter to his daughter asking her to come to the auction to see the first wild horse he tamed in his life. Before going on stage, nervous Roman kept looking around, looking for his daughter in the audience. She didn't show up.
Marquits was even more nervous than Roman. It had never seen so many onlookers. The music on the loudspeaker, the loud noise of the helicopter hovering overhead, finally drove Marquits crazy and threw Roman off his horse. Marquits was the only horse not to be sold. According to the regulations, if the taming fails, the horse is not tamed and will be euthanized.
When Roman heard the news, he couldn't accept the death of Marquits, his only friend, the angel who awakened him. Ignoring the rules of the prison, he was desperate to let Marquits go and let it go back to nature. But he himself, for violating the prison rules, was once again placed in solitary confinement. We don't know how long he will be in prison, or whether his foul will extend his already indefinite sentence again. The film does not explain it. The last shot is of Marquits reappearing around the prison one day, lingering and refusing to leave, and Roman can only watch his old friend through the narrow window.
This is a great irony. The wild horses, who always refused to domesticate, finally got the freedom they longed for. And those who finally discover their conscience will lose their freedom more and more endlessly. Roman finally realized the value of life through his acquaintance with Marquits, and in order to maintain Marquits' precious life, he lost his freedom forever. Is this the truth of the world?
The movie wasn't a big hit, I hadn't even heard of it before. Matthias Hurnell, his acting skills exploded. my dream man.
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